If you remember, last week Kim was at the Steve Spangler Science in the Rockies workshop. It was beyond fabulous. If you ever get a chance to attend, grab it. The ideas, friendships, connections, and supplies received were beyond any other workshop, as well as Kim's expectations. We plan on incorporating many of his science ideas and concepts throughout the school year. Be looking for them on the blog. Below is a video of one of the many interactive, hands-on science activities everyone participated in. Kim is walking on broken glass.
Kim was back to tutoring the day after returning home from Colorado. The great thing about tutoring is that we can try out new ideas in a one on one setting. Teaching the students to write thick and thin questions is not new for us, but we found new tools and a great article that will help make these lessons more effective. We had two different purposes for teaching questioning to our students. One student was consistently asking thin questions while reading independently. They were questions that were unimportant to the plot of the story. It was difficult for this student to decide what was important enough in the story to ask questions about. Other students were having difficulty interpreting questions and answering them with depth and understanding.
To review the concept of thick and thin questions we showed the following YouTube video and then a powerpoint. The kids seemed to like them and began to decipher the difference between the two types of questions.
We then provided the students with question stems to use to write thin and thick questions as we read.
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| Question Stems Given To Students |
Kim found a great article on Edutopia about questioning. This article gave great examples of questions that help kids think on a deeper level. You might want to check it out!
Hopefully you will find these resources helpful in the upcoming school year.
Kim and Anne
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